From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 20 17:50:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep14-int.chello.nl (amsfep14-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAC337B404 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:50:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from hibernate.cryolabs.net ([213.132.151.88]) by amsfep14-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with SMTP id <20020221015048.XWCK24661.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@hibernate.cryolabs.net> for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:50:48 +0100 Received: (qmail 17833 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2002 02:50:46 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO cocaine.cryolabs.net) (192.168.196.5) by hibernate.cryolabs.net with SMTP; 21 Feb 2002 02:50:46 +0100 Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units From: Wouter Van Hemel To: Michael Wardle Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3C744D39.1020308@adacel.com> References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> <3C744D39.1020308@adacel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 21 Feb 2002 02:50:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1014256250.304.66.camel@cocaine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 02:28, Michael Wardle wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2002-02-21 10:53, Michael Wardle wrote: > > > >>Hi. > >> > >>There is a standard on how to represent data sizes here: > >>http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html > >> > >>I suggest that the document is updated to consistently use this standard. > >> > > > > Reading that page, all I have to say is "NO. Good grief, no." > > Mebibit ? Kibibit ? Ye gods. > > Yes, short for binary megabyte and binary kilobyte. Call them the full > name if you can't get your tongue around the sort versions. > > > I would probably prefer it if we consistently used KB for Kilobyte(s), > > and MB for Megabytes, but having different symbols for units that are > > multiples of 1024 and other symbols/contractions for multiples of 1000! > > No, please no. > > Like it or not, 1000 bytes != 1024 bytes. KB (or preferably kB) means > 1000 bytes, and that's not the units we usually talk about. > So you think this would make things _less_ confusing... Interesting. If we consistently use kb and mb (_with_ space...), and mention somewhere that all units are powers of 2, wouldn't that settle it... Kind regards, wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message